Felix Salten quotes

“He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal. He soared above the ground, he head in jubilation. Conquering!”
-- Felix Salten

#Air Quotes #Feet Quotes #Rose Quotes

“You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.”
-- Felix Salten

Source : Felix Salten, Richard Cowdrey, Barthold Fles, R. Sudgen Tilley (2014). “Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

#Thinking Quotes #May Quotes #Matter Quotes

“There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.”
-- Felix Salten

Source : Felix Salten (2013). “Bambi: A Life in the Woods”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

“Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.”

“This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.”

“Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for”

“an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

“Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.”

“You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.”

“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”

“So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.”

Source : Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”

“If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.”

Source : "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

“Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.”